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Art . III . —The History of Christ , a Testimony to the sole Deity of the Father : and the Connexion between Divine and Human Philanthropy . Two Sermqns , preached on the Morning and Evening of Sunday *
September 14 , 1823 , at the Open * ing of the Unitarian Chapel , Young Street , Charlotte Square , Edinburgh . By W . J . Fox . 8 vo . pp . 44 . Edinburgh , Bell and Bradfute ; London , C . Fox and Co .
A rt . IV . — The Spirit of Unitarian Christianity . A Sermon , delivered at the Opening of the Finsbury Unitarian Chapel , on Sunday , Feb . 1 st 1824 : To which is prefixed € O
, , M . OI / , J . U ^ 1 . X IS IX / lttisfli JJt HJ * HX > Gl *> , An Address , delivered on laying the First Stone of the Chapel , on Thursday , May 22 nd , 1823 . By W . J . Fox . 8 vo , pp . 36 . C . Fox and Co .
IN these kindred publications , Mr . Ftix asserts the claims of the Unitarian doctrine with his wbrtted ability and ardour . The first Sermon at Edinburgh , from John xviii . 37 , is designed to shew that tc Christ bore witness to
Unitarian Christianity ; " and after a judicious and satisfactory summary of " the History of Christ" as ' < a Testimony to the sole Deity of the Fa-
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6 % l Review . ~ r-Fo& * s Edi n burgh and London ChctpehOpemng Sermons .
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say , so madly , misrepresented by ( Jamaliel Smith , and afefr upon the erroneous apprehension of the Thessalomans that Paul represented the end
of the world as at hand , which is , as might have been expected , eagerlylaid hold of by the same author as an argument against the apostle ; but we can only refer to them , leaving the reader to satisfy himself by a perusal of the volume .
In Ben David , the Apostle of the Gentiles has an ardent admirer and an ingenious and eloquent advocate . No one who has read Gamaliel Smith ought to rest contented without
reading likewise his learned answerer . We have sufficiently shewn that we cannot yield conviction to Ben David in all his hypotheses and criticisms , but we think , and have pleasure in stating , that the Christian world is indebted
to him for his able and honest exposure of an attempt to destroy Christianity , by an attack upon the Chief of the Apostles ,
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region of light . Forgetting , however , this condition , he did look back , and she vanished for ever . The source of this fiction will be found in " CfenesTs xvii . 17—26 . 4 < Aristaeas , by the assistance of his mother , compels Proteus to explain to him the cause of his disasters . This Proteus was a sea monster , who turned himself at will into all sorts of beasts , but principally into a lion . This we learn from the fourth Odyssey of Homer . The Impostors , who delivered oracles ia his name , were the authors of the fable about the bees ; the main object of which seems to have been to ridicule the Israelites for
worshiping as their god a strangled calf . According to Homer , Proteus was not in Egypt , but frequented the shores of an adjaceut island : and we find him opposed to Jehovah among the Philisfities , under the name of Dagon , which means a fish or corn , as the word is derived from
one of two Hebrew terms very similar in sound , though thus different in sense . If then the devotees of Dagon or Proteus , under the fable of the strangled calf and the bees , ridiculed the Israelites and the true God ; and if it was usual with Proteus to metamorphose himself into a lion ,
we shall see the purport of the following piece of history : f Then went Samson down and his father and his mother to Temnath—and behold a young lion roared against him , and the spirit of the Lord came mightily upon him : and he rent him as he would have rent a kid , and
he had nothing in his hand . • . And after a time he returned , and he turned aside to see the carcase of the Hod , and behold there was a swarm of bees and honey in the carcase of the lion / Judges xiv . 5—9 . This act was miraculous , inflicted in just and signal vengeauce by a servant of
the true God , to illustrate the folly and falsehood of those who trusted in the popular gods opposed to him . The punishment inflicted on Dagon , as meaning corn , was also very signal , but different . * And Samson went and caught three hundred foxes , and took lire-brands , and
turned tail to tail , and put a fire-brand in the midst between two tails . And when he had set the brands on fire > he Jet them go into the standing corn of the Philistines ; and burnt up both the shocks ,
aud also the standing corn , with the vineyards and olives / chap . xv . 4 , 5 . The Philistines ascribed this corn to the bounty of Dagon , and its destruction proved the nullity of the god which they worshiped . "
Ben David has some very good observations upon PauPs ' . last visit to Jerusalem , so strangely , and We might
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1824, page 624, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2529/page/48/
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